Valley Song by Athol Fugard

Author:Athol Fugard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2013-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

VERONICA: No! I didn’t!

BUKS (Ignoring her):...insulting the memory of your Ouma, if that “arme ou kleurling” hadn’t gone to the city and rescued you. Ja. You would most probably be lying in the same grave as your mother if Betty Bruintjies hadn’t climbed into that vervloekte railway bus and found you and brought you back here. Broken hearted as she was, she nursed you and gave you a start in life. Ja, it’s true she scrubbed floors in that Landman house, went down on her hands and knees and scrubbed and polished, but if you can walk through your life with even half of the pride that that woman had in herself and her life, then you will be a very lucky girl. As for this “arme ou kleurling”... you’re right—I’ve done a lot of crawling and begging in my life and I am ready to do it again for those few akkers. You want to know why Veronica? So that I can grow food there for you to eat, just as I grew food there for your mother and your Ouma to eat, and as my father grew food there for me to eat.

VERONICA (Struggling to hold back tears): I’m sorry Oupa.

The Author leaves the role of Buks and talks to the audience.

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